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VMware/VirtualPC question?

I work at a college that would like to utilize Virtual PC or VMware to allow students to create their own machines on portable drives to use/test during the semester. Only problem I have encountered is that VPC or VMW remembers the last location of the last virtual Disk/PC used.

Is there a way to automatically remove previous users' Virtual disk from the menu and auto find a new users Virtual disk on a new portable drive?

I would like to at least remove the prevous students info so the next user can simply 'add new Virtual disk'.

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When I was in School

all the workstations had Deep Freeze installed. So rebooting the computer wiped out any changes made, so we hade to add new disks each time. In VMWare I thikn there is an option. I will have to go poke at my laptop and see. I have not used VPC in a few years so I can not help there =(

VMware/VirtualPC question?

I don't have an answer to your question but I might be able to find out. I'm currently taking some classes and the school provides us with usb drives with VMware to use "in the lab" only. I've only used it a few times and haven't noticed any issues. The drives aren't assigned to any specific person. It is possible that each time I got one that hadn't been used yet.

I haven't quite gotten around to setting up my own personal one yet. The problem is I don't have access to the OS's that I'd like to play with.

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